102 L October, 



pale drab-brown, both wings crossed at the middle by a narrow oi*ange coloured 

 band, a faint waved brown line between it and the outer margin ; the posterior-wing 

 with a submarginal row of small black spots, the fifth the largest. Exp., f inch. 



Hab. : Ecitador (Buckley). Mits. Druce. 



EuRTGONA Julia, n. sp. 



TJpper-side : anterior-wing dark brown, shaded from the base to the middle 

 with rufous-brown. Posterior-wing dark rufous-brown, with the outer margins dark 

 brown. Under-side dull white, the margins rufous. Eoth wings crossed by a con- 

 tinuous curved rufous line, slightly broken near the inner margin of the posterior- 

 wing. Anterior-wing crossed by a submarginal faint brown line. Posterior-wing 

 with a submarginal line of five black spots, minute, except the one nearest the costal 

 margin. Exp., 1 inch. 



Hab.: Santarem, Amazon (H. H. Smith). Mus. Druce. 



The Beeches, Circus Eoad, St. John's Wood : 

 September, 1878. 



NATUEAL HISTOEY OP EBULEA TERBASCALIS. 

 BY W. BUCKLER. 



lu tlie Entomologist's "VYeeMy Intelligencer, vol. x, p. 71, is re- 

 corded the first information o£ Teucriiim scorodonia being the food 

 plant of verhascalis by Mr. McLachlan, who mentions therein the fact 

 of his finding in the autumn of 1S60 " larvse, evidently Fyrnlidce, on this 

 plant," which, with true prophetic instinct, he refers to this species ; 

 from the brief description there given of the characters he observed in 

 those larvfe, I have the fullest evidence now to offer in proof of the 

 correctness of his judgment. 



Dr. Hofmann, in his " Kleinschmetterlingsraupen," published in 

 1875, quotes first the Vienna Catalogue, wherein Verhasciim is given 

 as the food plant, and, secondly, adds that, according to Eossler, the 

 larva should rather be sought on Tettcrium ; liossler's work is dated 

 1864 — 66, four years after Mr. McLachlan had published his discovery. 



On August 8th, 1877, I had the pleasure to receive from my 

 friend, Mr. W. E. Jeffrey, two dozen eggs of this species, being part 

 of a batch laid, a few days before, on both sides of some leaves of 

 Teucrium scorodonia, beyond doubt their projier food plant, which had 

 been ascertained the previous season by Mr. Jeffrey, who on this oc- 

 casion kept a few of the eggs for himself, with advantage to our object 

 of elucidating the history of this hitherto unknown larva. 



The eggs hatched on 11th and 12th of August, and the young 

 larva; were svipplied with Teucrium, on which they soon settled them- 

 selves, creeping under the leaves, each one by itself choosing a place 



